authoritative voice
collocation in Englishmeaningsofauthoritativeandvoice
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authoritative
adjective
uk/ɔːˈθɒr.ɪ.tə.tɪv/us/əˈθɔːr.ə.t̬ə.t̬ɪv/
showing that you are confident, in control, and expect to be respected ...
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voice
noun
uk/vɔɪs/us/vɔɪs/
the sounds that are made when people speak ...
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(Definition ofauthoritativeandvoicefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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We were given a presentation, delivered with military precision, on wheat breeding by a tall, rather thin young man with a distinctlyauthoritativevoice.
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Antitheatre factions, to give themselves anauthoritativevoice, therefore identified their views with patriotism.
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The analysis of the myth of threatened authority shows that some of the interviewing officers seemed to hold mistaken beliefs about the vulnerability of theirauthoritativevoice.
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Thus, he became anauthoritativevoicein the making of academic discourse, providing us with angles from which to see a cer tain culture.
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Theauthoritativevoice25 - as in the case of sacred language - demands the speakers' acknowledgment, their unconditional allegiance.
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Linton'sauthoritativevoice, wit, and fast-paced arguments discourage readers from thinking carefully about her logic; instead, they become mesmerized by her dazzling verbal displays.
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School primers belie a naive realism in which "textual" war veterans are bestowed with anauthoritativevoiceto fashion the children's collective memory.
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It is surely due to the country that someauthoritativevoiceshould be heard.
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They speak with a powerful andauthoritativevoicewhich we all must hear.
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He is the authentic andauthoritativevoicethat we knew he would be.
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We could have no moreauthoritativevoicespeaking.
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After all, it is theauthoritativevoiceof what was said.
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That is anauthoritativevoicefrom within the industry to which we should pay some heed.
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We listen to his clear andauthoritativevoiceon those matters with great interest.
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I quote again from what one might call theauthoritativevoiceof organised industry.
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They are the effective andauthoritativevoiceof the congregation.
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It was what many of us had been thinking, and it was what many of us had been hoping that some moreauthoritativevoicethan our own would say.
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I could have wished that this appeal had been made by a far moreauthoritativevoicethan my own.
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But for a democracy in time of peace to be required to speak with a single andauthoritativevoicesimply will not do.
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